KILLING ROMMEL: Not by Strength, by Guile | Steve Kaysers...
Rated • 1 review • business, history, writing, steven pressfield, steve kayser • writingriffs.com
Great Stories are Questions
Really great historical stories make you a part of the past. You're there. You smell the smells. Hear the sounds. Taste the foods. Trod the paths. But most importantly, they make you think - force you to question the very tenets and precepts of life you may have previously taken for granted ... or not even thought of at all.
Questions that allow you to commune with the past, in the present, about the future. But, much as Heraclitus says ...
You can not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. - Heraclitus
You may also feel great loss when the story ends. Killing Rommel does that. It raises questions that transcend the story itself.
Really great historical stories make you a part of the past. You're there. You smell the smells. Hear the sounds. Taste the foods. Trod the paths. But most importantly, they make you think - force you to question the very tenets and precepts of life you may have previously taken for granted ... or not even thought of at all.
Questions that allow you to commune with the past, in the present, about the future. But, much as Heraclitus says ...
You can not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. - Heraclitus
You may also feel great loss when the story ends. Killing Rommel does that. It raises questions that transcend the story itself.
